Boise Development Thread - Part II - Page 134

DonDay · #**2661** Posted **Aug 9, 2018, 6:10 PM**

I got my hands on a whole bunch of interior and exterior renderings of the new building at 11th & Idaho ---- which will be called... 11th & Idaho.

Details on BoiseDev here/

Welcome2Boise · #**2662** Posted **Aug 9, 2018, 7:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by DonDay

I got my hands on a whole bunch of interior and exterior renderings of the new building at 11th & Idaho ---- which will be called... 11th & Idaho.

Details on BoiseDev here/

looks nice if not exciting. Decent infill. Hopefully a new rooftop dining opportunity

Sawtooth · #**2663** Posted **Aug 12, 2018, 7:05 AM**

mhays · #**2664** Posted **Aug 12, 2018, 6:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by Boisebro

Total office space downtown: ~ 4.5 million square feet.
U/C office space: 130,000 sq ft (this is just pioneer plaza; not sure about other construction)
Proposed office space: 181,000 sq ft (this is just the 10-floor proposed building on 11th and Idaho; there may be others)

source: http://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/s...esults?q=boise

I'd caution that brokerage reports vary tremendously in their numbers for the same market. My city's reports have about a 3/5 ratio in metro inventory depending on the brokerage. They tend to be fairly similar for vacancy only.

Also "downtown" zones vary massively. This one is drawn fairly tightly. Sometimes "downtown" is the entire central city. They only divide things for tracking purposes and to carve things up for their brokers, not trying to "define" downtown. In this case with Cushman they drew the borders pretty normally, like Downtown proper plus some fringe areas to the edge of the bench etc.

TVurban · #**2665** Posted **Aug 13, 2018, 7:04 PM**

Great sum-up article in the Statesman about all of the downtown projects

Condos. Apartments (some low-income). Offices. Stores. What’s going up now Downtown
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/...216262625.html

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When Kount, a Boise tech company that helps businesses fight e-commerce fraud, outgrew its headquarters on Lusk Street, it began looking Downtown for a new home for its 175 employees.

It found one in the four-story John Alden Building at 10th and Main streets. Sawtooth Development Group of Ketchum, which bought the office building in 2013, is spending $3.8 million to renovate it, according to city building documents.

Kount couldn’t have found a better location, said Kate Lenz, vice president of human resources. Several other tech companies, including Clearwater Analytics and Cradlepoint, are nearby.

“We felt the proximity to other tech companies would help with recruiting,” Lenz said. “We also felt it would be a great place for our employees to be close to Downtown activities such as First Thursday and Alive After 5, as well as all the fantastic restaurants and breweries.”

Here's the list included in the article:

Kount Building
The Gibson @ 5th and Idaho
Capitol Terrace Refresh
The Cartee
Ludwigs Towers
Home 2 Suites Hotel
Hilton Garden Inn
New Path Community Housing
Adare Manor
Idaho Street Townhomes
11th and Idaho Office Tower
Boise Hawks Stadium
St. Lukes Medical Center Expansion
St. Alphonsus neighborhood Hospital
The Metropolitan (Fort and 8th)
Cathedral of the Rockies Housing
The Afton, phase 2
Idaho State Museum
Ash Street Workforce Housing
Verraso Downtown
Main Library
Wilcomb Redevelopment
River Street Lofts

TVurban · #**2666** Posted **Aug 13, 2018, 7:05 PM**

New mix-use planned for 8th street and includes the information about parking for the new library

Developer to tear down old warehouse, build new housing across from Downtown library

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/...216352405.html

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Boise’s plan to replace its aging Downtown library with a big new one in the same place has spurred a private school across River Street and the school’s landlord into making replacement plans of their own.

The private, nonprofit Foothills School of Arts and Sciences has rented a former warehouse building on the northeast corner of River and 8th streets for more than 20 years. Its landlord is Wilcomb LLC, one of the businesses owned by the Wilcomb family, which has been in the development and property management business in Boise since 1910.

City officials came to the Wilcombs and Foothills with a problem. The existing library, on the southeast corner of River and 8th, has little parking. The new library, if built as planned, would have even less. Might the Wilcombs redevelop their site with a new building and put some parking levels in it?

T.J. Wilcomb, a partner in Wilcomb LLC and its construction-business sister, Jordan Wilcomb Construction Inc., was interested. He had already been thinking of redeveloping

Cottonwood · #**2667** Posted **Aug 15, 2018, 2:45 PM**

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/...216066985.html

This app-development startup is moving to Boise and seeks to fill jobs paying 6 figures

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A Southern California startup is establishing its main office in Boise, where it says it will hire software engineers into six-figure jobs. Their task: to help develop a micro-investing app so ordinary people can invest easily in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.

Cred, based in Santa Monica, has been negotiating for office space in the U.S. Bank building Downtown. Founder and CEO Brendon McQueen, 35, an Idaho native, seeks engineers skilled in React Native, a development tool for making mobile apps.

Sawtooth · #**2668** Posted **Aug 16, 2018, 12:38 AM**

boh-dey-guh
newX2

Cottonwood · #**2669** Posted **Aug 17, 2018, 1:55 PM**

Thanks Sawtooth.

https://www.idahopress.com/news/loca...cbd5c339f.html

Boise has the largest geothermal system in the country. Here's how it works.

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Started in 1983, Boise’s geothermal system is the largest of its kind in the United States and sixth largest worldwide, according to city officials, and they want to see it expand. This year, the city received permission from the Idaho Department of Water Resources to increase the amount of water it uses. With more water, the city is hoping to connect more downtown buildings.

According to Public Works Director Steve Burgos, the city plans to grow the system by encouraging buildings that are already near the system to join, as opposed to digging lines farther out of the downtown core.

TVurban · #**2670** Posted **Aug 20, 2018, 10:43 PM**

Some cool Downtown Caldwell news. This would replace all of the buildings they torn down a year or two ago...

Multi-use hotel site proposed in Caldwell

https://www.idahopress.com/news/loca...8b48428a3.html

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CALDWELL — Three new multi-use facilities including a hotel could be coming to downtown Caldwell in the space where the Saratoga Hotel once was.

The Caldwell Urban Renewal Agency on Monday night accepted a proposal from the Gardner Company, which is currently working on a nearly $65 million project in downtown Boise, for three multi-use facilities to bring a hotel, retail and other space to Caldwell as a part of the Creekside Redevelopment Project. The site is 1.4 acres, bordered on the northeast by Main Street and the southeast by South Seventh Avenue.

Caldwell’s attorney and the Gardner Company will begin working on an agreement to identify the project, its time frame and other logistics. Once an agreement is reached, the project will need final approval from City Council and the urban renewal agency.

Image provided by: Idaho Press

Boisebro · #**2671** Posted **Aug 22, 2018, 7:16 PM**

the Idaho Press has an article today about the Cartee. the city approved the rezoning so the project can move forward.

Sawtooth · #**2672** Posted **Aug 26, 2018, 12:50 AM**

Garden City Greenbelt

The River that separates us

JustakidfromBoise · #**2673** Posted **Aug 27, 2018, 12:10 AM**

Wonderful things are definitely happening in Garden City, but I still say Chinden Boulevard needs a major face lift.

FutureNorthEnder · #**2674** Posted **Aug 27, 2018, 2:23 AM**

Great photos, Sawtooth! Garden City riverside is looking pretty good. Sometimes I think I should move into one of those condos.

Cottonwood · #**2675** Posted **Aug 29, 2018, 2:33 PM**

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/...217102095.html

You could ride shared, dockless bikes in Boise soon. Here’s how the city is preparing.

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Fotsch has relevant experience. He’s director of Boise GreenBike, a bike share program that, after years of trying, started operating in the spring of 2015. Unlike dockless bike share companies, Boise GreenBike uses stations where customers lock up their bikes when they’re done using them.

https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news...timore/530881/

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Dockless Digest: Los Angeles to enforce moratorium; vandalism in Baltimore

Elsewhere, Boise, ID has new rules, Cleveland is considering regulations and docked bike-share system Nice Ride in Minneapolis will expand into dockless bikes.

https://www.idahopress.com/news/loca...4f1b85b44.html
A stationless bike share could come to Boise. How will the city regulate it?

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According to city spokesman Mike Journee, Lime Bike approached the city a few weeks ago about bringing its operation to Boise. The proposal included bringing between 1,200 and 3,000 bicycles and electric-powered scooters to the city.

And, of course our current bike share:
https://boise.greenbike.com/

TVurban · #**2676** Posted **Aug 29, 2018, 2:36 PM**

Massive new development proposed for 3rd and Myrtle.
From what I can gather in the documents, the large garage is also meant to help with Parking in Julia Davis/the zoo.
http://pdsonline.cityofboise.org/pds...id=CAR18-00021

Boisebro · #**2677** Posted **Aug 29, 2018, 3:31 PM**

very cool--thanks for finding.

I'm curious if that awful triangular surface lot right above it will ever be developed. it's been a total eyesore for years, and it's a HUGE lot.